AMC mini-series on occultist and father of American rocketry Jack Parsons

Mark. Heyman is adapting George Pendle's Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons for Ridley Scott as an upcoming AMC mini-series. Parsons, the inventor of the solid fuel rocket booster, co-founder of Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, acolyte of Aleister Crowley and his sex-magik rituals, and victim of an embezzlement scam by which L Ron Hubbard funded the early Church of Scientology was as brilliant and bizarre a figure as ever walked through the pages of American history. The man invented rocket science despite never completing a semester of college. The book is a great read and I expect Scott to knock it out of the park.

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